YoYo Games officially announced GameMaker Studio 2, the next evolution of its game development tool. The software has been rewritten from the ground up and now features a whole new codebase, UI and GameMaker.

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Rather than purchasing modules, you will be able to purchase stand alone licenses for GameMaker Studio 2 on a per platform basis. For example, if you are only developing for web, you only ever need to purchase a web license.

At launch, a GameMaker Studio 2 desktop license (allowing export to Windows, Linux and Mac) will be available for a one time purchase of $99.99*

A Trial version of GameMaker Studio 2 will be available for free, to allow you to explore all of the new innovations on offer. The Trial version will come with limitations on the number of resources a single project can hold and does not allow exporting final executables.